Traces of You

I look for you in midnight moons
And winter’s frost
And moss that drips from branches
Of a magnolia tree
Fragrant with blossoms

I look for you in faces glimpsed
Across vast expanses
Of loneliness, and pain, and loss
Seen through dark lenses
Reflective of hope

I look for you in frothing waves
And tidal pools
And footprints imprinted on the sand
That glistens in the sunlight
Of eternity

I look for you in plaintive strains
Of melodic symphonies
And frantic beats of rock and roll
Shivering up and down the spine
Of memory

I look for you everywhere
There is a where
A place, a time, a refuge, asylum
And nowhere I look, do I find
A trace of you